Xmas Non-Xmas Music Playlist

OK folks back to the old playlists again and not a Xmas song amonst them although i did enjoy reading the Xmas plalist bybradxxx  - anyway her it is (and as coming42 would say musically and perversely diverse).

1/ Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man (EMI CD)
2/ Hawkwind - The Collection (EMI CD)
3/ Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City CD)
4/  Scott Walker- The Drift (4AD CD)
5/  Various Artists - Anthems In Eden (Castle 4CD set)
6/ James Brown - Star  Time (Polydor 4CD set) - had this set for years - great funky music and a bit!!
7/ Various Artists - Ho! Roady Music from Vietnam (Trikont CD)
8/ Art Ensemble of Chicago - Sirius calling (Pi Recordings CD)
9/ Sun Ra - Greatest Hits (Evidence CD)
10/  Various Artists - The Record Shop (Rough Trade CD)
11/ Alasdair Roberts - Farewell Sorrow (Rough Trade CD)
12/ Scritti Poliiti - White Bread Black Beer (Rough Trade CD)
13/ Various Artists - Ethio-Jazz ,Ehtiopiques Vol. 4 (Buda Musique CD)
14/ Various Artists - Garden Of Delights (Discotheque CD)
15/ Various Artists - Creative Outlaws (Trikont CD)
16/ Various Artists - ZTT Sampled (ZTT Records LP)
17/ John Coltrane - Soul Trane (Prestige LP)
18/ Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (Spinney CD)
19/  Joana Molina - Son (Domino CD)
20/  Various Artists - Tropicalia (Soul Jazz CD)

Mixed and varied as always. Dig it!!

The Sales

Well i made an intrepid look at the sales today. The town centre was fairly heaving especially in Churchill Square but Waterstones bookshop was okay - i used the book token voucher to get Richard Cook's "It's About That Time,Miles David On And Off The Record" (Atlantic Books) - infact I was in the shop for quite a long time deciding whether to buy this one,one on Bob Marley's "Exodus" by Vivian Goldman or the new Studs Turkel book.Actually i would like all three and probably end up with the other two at some point.

On the whole i do not enjoy the January Sales - well its not even January yet - but you know what i mean.

I did get the latest Carla Bozulich CD "Evangelista" (Constellation CD) where she is aided and abetted by members of Godspeed You Black Emperor and A Silver Mount Zion. Strange beautiful experimental improv country moving into visceral sonic assemblanges more akin to Current 93 or the latest Scott Walker ouvre.

Also, I popped into Snoopers to see how the vinyl LP's were going and some i have taken back for reselling up in London at my next visit,although one of them i will keep now by The Albion Country Band "Battle Of The Field" (Island LP 1976).
Well folk muisc in all its flavours is getting to me more often these days,what with compilations such as "Early Morning Hush" and "Anthems In Eden".It's a diverse lot really from Nick Drake,Albion Country Band,Maddy Prior,Shirley Collins,Alasdair Roberts and so on.

Crap TV and Were Is MY Stargate?

Well more crap TV but i was expecting to see my usual current editions of Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis - and neither was on - due to this holiday period i guess between Xmas and New Year's. So bugger it. At least Lorna is out with friends and thus i will playing records and CD's til she comes back.